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Sources: Apple's car team gets late 2017 deadline to prove feasibility of the self-driving system, amid hundreds of job cuts and strategy disagreements — Company to decide fate of self-driving platform by late 2017 — Hundreds of software, hardware engineers leave amid struggles
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Carnegie Mellon AI expert Russ Salakhutdinov hired as a new director of AI research at Apple, says he'll continue to do work at CMU — Russ Salakhutdinov tweets he's now a director of AI research — Apple has struggled to attract top AI talent due to secrecy
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Google Flights will now tell you when fares are likely to increase and help you find cheaper tickets — Google's airfare search destination Google Flights already offered a variety of features aimed at helping you find low-cost tickets, but today it's rolling out one more … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Netflix beats expectations, adding 3.2M global subscribers vs. 2M expected and 370K domestic subscribers vs. 304K for the quarter; stock up over 20% after hours — Netflix is finally breaking off from its slowing subscriber growth trend as it posted a huge quarter that beat both its own, and Wall Street's, expectations.
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Y Combinator boss Sam Altman says he's not going to cut ties with Peter Thiel for supporting Donald Trump — “Cutting off opposing viewpoints leads to extremism and will not get us the country we want.” — The head of Silicon Valley's most famous startup factory says he's sticking with Peter Thiel …
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Qualcomm announces X50 5G modem, enabling 5Gbps downloads and arriving in products in 2018, and says smartphones with X16 gigabit LTE modems coming in 2017 — Qualcomm made three announcements about connectivity products today at it 2016 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Razer acquires audiovisual icon THX as it explores growth beyond the games industry — Razer, the company that develops hardware and services for gamers and the world of gaming, has made an acquisition to catapult it to more platforms and more people: The company has acquired THX …
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Thanks:@ingridlunden| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IBM reports Q3 revenue of $19.2B, flat YoY; cloud as a service annual run rate now at $7.5B, up 66% from last year — IBM's strategic imperatives—new businesses that are getting investment—are starting to offset slower units. — IBM reported a better-than-expected third quarter …
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UK court rules that bulk personal data collection by GCHQ from 1998 to 2015 was illegal under ECHR, but collection is now compliant after 2015 government avowal — Investigatory powers tribunal says agencies operated secret regimes to collect vast amounts of communications data for 10 years
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FTC says it may lose ability to effectively regulate companies like Comcast, Google, and Verizon unless ruling from AT&T case is overturned on appeal — FTC seeks to reverse AT&T ruling that may gut consumer protection authority. — The Federal Trade Commission is worried …
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Facebook Messenger suggests what to talk about with “Conversation Topics” feature — Facebook Messenger may have already hit the billion-user club this past summer, but the company is always looking for new ways to increase app usage. The latest attempt is the introduction of “conversation topics” … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that 5-7M ex-Galaxy Note7 orders will convert into iPhone 7 sales, predominantly iPhone 7 Plus — Apple appears to the be the primary beneficiary of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall blunders, with replacement devices also prone to catching fire which eventually resulted …
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